builders are makIng of the midtown dIstrict. Fortunately, though, the \Vhitney Museum is closely tied to the Museum of Modern Art both structurally and visually, and while its onl} private gar- den space is the tin V terraces at the rear of the second and the fourth floors, its eastern façade flanks the Modern j"luseum's garden. By this close rela- tionship, both M useums have profited architecturally. The first Whitney Mu- seum, on West Eighth Street, was a group of old houses remodelled into a single building that bore many trace of the original layout. The architect of this transformation, Auguste L. Noel, did a tactful and on the whole ingratiating job, keepIng the new build- ing in harmony with the belated Geor- gian of Greenwich ViHage, and Bruce Buttfield gave it an unobtrusively mod- ernized, if not modern, interior. The exterior of the present \Vhitney was designed by the same architect, work- ing in consultation with Philip Johnson, who designed the addition to the Mu- seum of Modern Art and its garden; and the interior was done by the same decorator. Even if the Whitney trustees had not felt a natural obligation to con- form, there was good reason for them to reciprocate the Modern Museum\ gen- erous donation of a site by seeing that their architect designed a building that would harmonize with its neighbor. On the east wall he has done this admirably, using windows framed in black, and exposed steel columns, in the fashion of the Modern Museum's addition. This addition, by the way, is now almost blot- ted from view here by the Whitney building. By using the same grayish- buff brick that walls the garden and the addition, he has unified the Whitney with both its neighbor and the gar- den, and has reInforced Mr. Johnson's design. The best approach to the \Vhitney Museum, accordingly, is not along FIfty-fourth Street but from the Mod- ern Museum's garden side. As many people must by now have discovered, the famous open-air public restaurant of the Modern Museum has been pre- served-under glass, as it were, for it now occupies the east side of the Whit- ney's ground floor, and Its great glass windows, ceiling-high, give onto an open-air terrace, lined with tables and sun umbrellas during seasonable weath- er, th t overlooks the Modern Mu- seum's garden. Another horizontal bank of windows, this time of green glass, runs along the top floor of the \Vhit- ney. This one, incidentally, matches the T H E ", ,1f/ 'V" - \, .. "" .. '<1ó. _;;;.. , \. " ,',' :{ ",,: " );ë "... ',j "1 .. .. . t .. ." . - <I " .::.:: '..... ":'.\ to :,.,f,-_ ,,1 w"*' A-"1f " >foA<;'>,)$' , .."...... ... .. -' " , ' , , '",'$: :' 000 .: .. ,... - ' ". .. ",. "," \ '." " '" '::" -,." \ ,,' ,".. ""'I> w :/ 169 PRE S E N T S . ... I< : .. .. . , .. .. . ' !; . .. *: .. ,. .. ..... : :' . :. ,,;* \ *-' LOS CHAVALES DE ESPANA with TRINI REVES TED STRAETER his Songs Piano and Orchefitra MARK MONTE'S CONTINENTALS THE :; PLAZA FIFTH AVENUE . "'..... "4 '<t AT 69TH STREET Take entertainment wherever you go with the ,?. ALL TRANSISTOR POCKET RADIO (USES NO TUBES) EnJoy news, sports, mUSlC and other entertainment - anywhere - wllh the beautifully engineered REGENCY,WORLYS MALLESTSTANDARD RADIO (only 3' x 5' x 1 1 A," - only 12 ounces). Black, itory, red green, mottled mahogany - all with brushed dlal . Wonderful for yourself - or as a gift. $ 9 95 battery $1.25 Also avaÛable I-n pearlpscent de lu'te fim h . . . pearl whlle. lavl"nder, plnk, hml', mendwn blue at $54 95 1 b p us attery. Lealher carrymg Cfl e, $395, Feuthn-light earphone $7.50; IUJttery saver bt (.S ballnie In case) $6.25 I.. I II I It '1" '\ r /Í{WJ{(;' '." 0' lcy;<1 450 Madison Ave..1 50th Sf,. 975 MAD ISON AYE. at 76th st. (in Hotel Carl,le) 795 MADISON AYE. at 67th St., N. Y. 22. N. Y. 228 EAST POST ROAD WHfTE PLAINS -, } \ It :' " ., :s: ^ \ " " "c)>. ' .. f *" ":' ,. .. -t<- \ .... ,. · <It .-... .. ' 4> ø.. .". 9, $>> . ....ø, .... .. " &. .... .. .,$" .. .,$ *' $,'0. <$ * 'It<;. , >$i;<, ,. *$ , $.... $. j$> o " 1 _ .......'....... _iIIÎIIot-___ ____ -.. Please send 0 Regency Radio o case 0 earphone 0 kit to: NAME ADDRESS Free delivery in Met area (add 3% tax). P.P. and ins. add sSe E. - $1.50 W. of \fiss. Payn'ent 0 Charge my 0 enclosed account